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said street, and deepen said falls on the side thereof adjoining
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said street, if the said street be given up to the city.
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SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That John E. Howard, William
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Commis-
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Gibson, William Cooke, William M'Mechen, Henry Thompson,
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sioners to
lay out
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John Hillen, Joseph Townsend, Nathaniel Williams and John
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streets, &c.
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McHenry, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners,
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who shall cause to be surveyed and laid off, within the limits of
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the city of Baltimore, all such streets, lanes and alleys, as they
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shall deem proper and convenient, and cause the same to be
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marked with so many and such durable land marks as they
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shall think necessary, and return plots with such survey and
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Their
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location, with proper explanations, to the register of the city of
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powers.
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Baltimore, and the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be by
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them respectively filed and preserved as other records of their
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offices; and the said commissioners may employ such engineer
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or surveyor as they may see fit, and a secretary ; and the ex-
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penses incurred in the execution of the duties hereby enjoined,
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shall be paid by the mayor and city council of Baltimore.
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SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners be,
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Their
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and they are hereby authorized, to contract for and lay out such
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powers.
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and so many parcels of ground within the said city, as they
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shall judge convenient and necessary to be used for public pur-
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poses ; and if the price demanded therefor shall be deemed
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reasonable by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, they are
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hereby authorized to purchase the same at the expense of the
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city, and such lots or parcels of ground shall be conveyed to
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the said mayor and city council, for the purposes aforesaid.
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SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the commissioners afore-
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May name
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said be, and they are hereby authorized, to assign one name
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streets.
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to any street, which, in the whole or in parts, may have ac-
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quired different names, and when two or more streets may be
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known by the same name to alter or change them, so that no
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two streets have one name; and also to alter the names of such
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as in their judgment, decorum shall require ; and the names so
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given of all the other streets, shall be written on the plots thereof
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to be returned to the said commissioners, by which names they
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shall thereafter be called and known.
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SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That a majority of the aforesaid
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Vacancies
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board of commissioners shall be competent to exercise all its
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and quorum
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powers; and vacancies happening therein, shall be supplied
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from time to time by the mayor and presidents of the first and
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second branches of the city council, or any two of them, for the
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time being ; and that so much of the act relating to streets in
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the city and precincts of Baltimore, as is supplied by, or is in-
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consistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is
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hereby repealed ; Provided however, that where the commis-
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Certain
streets
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sioners, in pursuance of the said act, may have laid out any
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confirmed.
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